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Thursday, April 5, 2012

Really Random, 4/5/12

I stopped at my parents' house a few days ago. They live in a duplex and have very little space behind their house, not enough to really call it a yard. However, that has not stopped them from making it beautiful.

We have a tree in our backyard called a "fruitless mulberry." Every fall, every single branch is pruned off. This is what it looks like today. I'll post monthly pictures because unless you have had one of these trees (and at one point we had three), you can't believe how fast the branches grow.

Time to party. Fill these with some nuts or crackers, and invite your friends over. Mark's been busy, and these are all available for purchase.

I really like "texty" fabric. This is some new fabric from Riley Blake, "Peak Hour" by Kellie Wulfsohn, great for a little boy. I especially like the car ad fabric.

Charlotte is on spring break from school. Yesterday I took her and Levi to see the Lorax. The price for a ticket for each of them, for a 10 a.m. showing, for a movie that is just a little over an hour long, is a little unbelievable at $8. But we had a great time. Or as Mastercard would say, "priceless." However, I think I'm going to wait until summer when they show $1 movies once a week.

Speaking of tickets. Spring quilt market in Kansas City, here I come!

Target is making me very happy these days. Even if I don't buy anything there (and in all honesty, how often do you go to Target and not buy anything??), these colors sure are tempting.

Inspiration for a quilt:

Last night a decision had to be made:

Should I organize my sewing room?

or sew?

No brainer. I sewed...although some organization is imminent. I wanted to make something for the Zakka sew-along but I can't find my book. I'm pretty sure it is underneath one of the piles of fabric on my sewing table....or floor.

Yesterday was a great mail day. I ordered my twill tape labels here and the shipping was very reasonable. Which is probably why I didn't notice that they came all the way from France!

I'm doing the 365 photo project where you take a picture every day. Yesterday's prompt was "someone who makes you happy."

I really enjoy the photo prompts each day. Here is the month of March. I can't remember why two of the days are blank. Oh well...

My friend, Deborah, did not lose her Zakka sew-along book under a pile of fabric. She has already made the first project. Isn't this cute? Okay, I might have to reorganize sooner than I thought. I really want to find my book so I can make this too. In orange Essex linen.

She also gifted me with this super cute pouch. Because she knew I would keep begging until she gave it to me and I are such good friends.

If you haven't already checked out her blog, Simply Miss Luella, you definitely should--she has a nice little giveaway going on and there is still time before she chooses a winner!

That about does it for this week. A little bit of this, a little bit of that. And now I'm headed into my sewing room because...

Last week our son borrowed my car to go to Los Angeles with some friends to see an ice hockey game. That is NOT the reason I put this on the back of my car, but I wonder if he'll ever ask to borrow my car again...

I do so love your random posts! And maybe hockey is "too cool" for quilting in Cali but I've never found that one can't be a fan of both. :-)

Target is moving into our province and there is a big campaign to ensure they keep the people who worked for the company they bought out. It'll be interesting to see how it plays out. I haven't decided whether or not I'll shop there...

I'll be at Market on Friday (and maybe Saturday)! and the car sticker made me laugh, my husband likes to take his vintage Winchester rifle to the range for target practice. This Spring, I took his Jeep to retreat, and he took my (pale green) Beetle (with pink Gerber Daisy in the vase) to the rifle range. He said "Never again". Still makes me smile...

I love your random posts. Great color inspiration, great Palmolive, great glass slumpwork....All of it. I took Elsa to see the Lorax. We went to the first show of the day, and when it was our turn to buy tickets, they said it was sold out. So, we had to buy tickets to the next show that started in 30 min, but it was in 3D. This made Elsa happy, but my tickets cost even more! $10 or $12 apiece for a matinee!!! And then there was popcorn. I'm pretty sure I was $40 poorer when I left that movie theater1 But she really enjoyed the movie!